“Biggest Breach Ever”: U.S. Government Hacked, Here’s Who the Feds Think Is the Culprit
By Kevin Liptak and Theodore Schleifer. Four million current and former federal employees might have had their personal information hacked, the Office of Personnel Management said on Thursday.
The agency, which is conducting background checks, warned it was urging potential victims to monitor their financial statements and get new credit reports.
U.S. officials believe this could be the biggest breach ever of the government’s computer networks.
The breach is beyond the Office of Personnel Management and the Department of Interior, with nearly every federal government agency hit by the hackers, government officials said . . .
U.S. investigators believe they can trace the breach to the Chinese government. Hackers working for the Chinese military are believed to be compiling a massive database of Americans, intelligence officials told CNN on Thursday night. (Read more from “U.S. Government Hacked; This Is Who the Feds Think Is the Culprit” HERE)
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China Suspected in Massive Breach of Federal Personnel Data
By Ken Dilanian and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar. China-based hackers are suspected of breaking into the computer networks of the U.S. government personnel office and stealing identifying information of at least 4 million federal workers, American officials said Thursday.
The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that data from the Office of Personnel Management and the Interior Department had been compromised.
“The FBI is conducting an investigation to identify how and why this occurred,” the statement said.
The hackers were believed to be based in China, said Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican.
Collins, a member of the Senate intelligence committee, said the breach was “yet another indication of a foreign power probing successfully and focusing on what appears to be data that would identify people with security clearances.” (Read more from “China Suspected in Massive Breach of Federal Personnel Data” HERE)
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